After the fall of the Berlin Wall, two cops from the East and West join forces to crack a gruesome case in this edge-of-your seat thriller set in post-reunification Germany.

West German detective Ulrike Bandow (Henriette Confurius: Transatlantic) discovers a sinister murder scene in The Roots of Evil (Federation). She and her new East German partner Koray Larssen (Fahri Yardim: Tatort) must unravel the trail of secrets that lead them to unsettling depths of bizarre, unsolved murders from the past. A twisted serial killer seems to have returned, causing chaos throughout the countryside.

The detectives have to learn to work together to stop the killer. But that’s not easy, because Larssen has an agenda of his own and Ulrike’s personal guilt leads to a deep abyss she never wanted to fall into…